title: Lifestyle approach for type 2 diabetes and metabolic syndrome.
abstract: Recent changes in lifestyle, including physical inactivity and unhealthy diets, are likely to have played an important role in the global epidemic of obesity, type 2 diabetes, and metabolic syndrome. Implementation of a healthier lifestyle, with an increase in physical activity and a reduction of body weight, based on the regulation of calories and fat intake, are the basis for the prevention and treatment of both type 2 diabetes and metabolic syndrome. Intervention studies based on changes in lifestyle in individuals at risk found that diabetes incidence was reduced by 42% to 63%. Similarly, intensive lifestyle changes in patients with the metabolic syndrome have been shown to reduce the prevalence of the syndrome by 20% to 48%. Reduction of body weight, improvement of the quality of diet, and promotion of physical activity are the main approaches to prevent and treat patients with type 2 diabetes or metabolic syndrome.
authors.affiliation: Department of Geriatrics and Metabolic Diseases, Second University of Naples, Division of Metabolic Diseases, Piazza L. Miraglia 2, 80138 Napoli, Italy. katherine.esposito@unina2.it
authors.forename: Katherine
authors.initials: K
authors.lastname: Esposito
authors.forename: Miryam
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Ciotola
authors.forename: Maria Ida
authors.initials: MI
authors.lastname: Maiorino
authors.forename: Dario
authors.initials: D
authors.lastname: Giugliano
mesh_terms: D003924:Diabetes Mellitus, Type 2 / Q000628:therapy*; D006801:Humans; D008019:Life Style; D024821:Metabolic Syndrome / Q000628:therapy*